Adam Whibley will be performing as Romeo in Unity Theatre’s upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet which opens on April 25. Picture supplied
“What’s in a name?” asks young Romeo during the balcony scene in Shakespeare’s tragic romance Romeo and Juliet.
“By any other name would smell as sweet”, says the Montague lad, played by Adam Whibley in Unity Theatre’s upcoming production.
Romeo has a lot riding on that wish — but for
the Guide it pays to get artists’ names right. Whibley was bestowed with the wrong surname in an arts pages story last week. Of Anglo-Saxon origin with variant spellings Webley, Weblye, Wibley, Whebley, Webbley and Whibley — all from Weobley in Herefordshire, and said to derive from the pre-7th century name Wibba, plus the Olde English leah (wood or clearing), the surname Whibley dates back to the mid 16th century — Shakespeare’s time, as it goes.
So Whibley, Adam Whibley, it is.
Righto, back to the balcony scene lad.
